An attempt is made to share the truth regarding issues concerning Israel and her right to exist as a Jewish nation. This blog has expanded to present information about radical Islam and its potential impact upon Israel and the West. Yes, I do mix in a bit of opinion from time to time.

Monday, April 07, 2014

The Palestinian Country of Lies

All the Palestinians' fabricated religious,
moral and historical demands on the land of Israel and Jerusalem are
based on Islam's permission to lie to the enemy, considered
"legitimate" because their ultimate objective is to destroy Israel and
establish "Palestine" on its ruins.

Mahmoud Abbas, acting leader of the PA, speaks in front of a banner of terrorist, Jews killer Yasser Arafat. - Photo Credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash 90It
is news to no one that throughout the negotiations with Israel, despite
Islam’s ban on lying, the Palestinians have consistently lied. Surah
Al-Haj (Surah 22, verse 30) and Surah Al-Ghafir (Surah 40, verse 28) of
the Qur’an, as well as many hadiths (the oral tradition attributed to
Muhammad), strongly condemn lying for any reason. It is specifically
considered an affront to Allah and Muhammad, and the liar will burn in
hell.Despite the religious ban on lying, Islam provides a
number of loopholes. For example, for an Islamist, one can lie to
effect a compromise between disputing parties, to deceive an enemy, to
make one’s wife happy.LOOPHOLES AROUND LYINGThus,
it is permissible to lie to the Jewish (and American) enemy, which is
what the Palestinian Arab negotiators have done time after time in the
negotiations with Israel. These negotiators, even those conveniently
hiding under the mantle of “secular,” employ the fundamentalist moral
code that dictates their actions. They have manipulated, avoided,
evaded, denied, wiggled around facts and told outright lies regarding
agreements already reached and their goals for future coexistence.For these believers in moral
religious pragmatism, permission to lie in the negotiations is based on
designating the Jew as the enemy of Allah and Islam, worthy only of death.
For the Palestinian Arab leadership, abetted by the Palestinian
Authority’s educational and religious systems, the Jew is religiously
labeled not only the enemy because of the so-called “occupation of
Palestine,” but because of the ancient Hadith that they invoke that
states that Muslims will not be redeemed on Judgment Day unless the Jews
on earth are killed. Therefore, for these radical believers, lying to
the Jews if it leads to their final destruction is virtually a
religious fiat.Before he met
with the American president last week, Mahmoud Abbas told Fatah’s
Revolutionary Council in Ramallah that he “would not recognize Israel
as the homeland of the Jewish people, would not waive the so-called
‘right of return’ of the Palestinian refugees, and would not abandon
the idea of Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.”An Abbas confidante and member of Fatah’s Central
Committee, appearing on official Palestinian Authority television,
revealed the true Palestinian Arab intentions for the Jews during that
conference. Abbas Zaki promised that “Allah will gather all the Jews together so that the Palestinians can destroy them.”All the Palestinian Arabs’ fabricated religious, moral
and historical demands on the land of Israel and Jerusalem are based
on Islam’s permission to lie to the enemy, considered “legitimate”
because their ultimate objective is to destroy Israel and establish
“Palestine” on its ruins. No matter the current historical revisionism,
honest Palestinian Arab scholars know that there was never a
Palestinian state in the land of Israel (or anywhere else); there was
never a Palestinian people until Jews started populating the land; and
nothing was ever promised to them in the Qur’an. When the United
Nations called for a Jewish state and an adjacent Arab state in 1947, the Arabs rejected it.THE WEST AS HANDMAIDEN TO THE LIESBecause
of stunning defeats visited upon the Palestinian Arabs whenever they
attempt to destroy Israel with violence and terrorism, they have decided
instead to implement Arafat’s “salami plan” and destroy Israel
piecemeal through fraud and deception. To that end they have recruited
the gullible West to do the work, if not for them, then with them. The
Palestinian Arab demand for the so-called “right of return” is one
aspect of the plan: its objective is to swamp Israel demographically,
thus destroying its Jewish character and making it possible to
establish the Muslim “Palestine” on its ruins.Unfortunately, through the United Nations, the Western
world willingly collaborates with the Palestinian Arabs. It supports
their outrageous claims and deliberately refuses to resolve the
Palestinian Arab issue. The “Palestinian refugee” project, directed
primarily by UNRWA, has unprecedented support from the West. Although
the status of “refugee” is not supposed to be hereditary, the UN
agencies still label the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren
of the Arabs who fled in 1948 as “refugees” and funnel billions of
dollars in aid to them through mechanisms established specifically for
that purpose. That status allows the Palestinian Arabs to preserve
indirectly the claims for “right of return” and helps motivate their
murderous intention, if unstated by the more savvy spokesmen, to
ultimately destroy Israel.
Nowhere in the world is there a project for refugees that even
remotely resembles the Ponzi scheme the UN set up for the Palestinian
Arabs. Not only does it shovel money to the “refugees,” it also
supports a myriad of corrupt – and totally unnecessary – UNRWA
employees who perpetuate the hatred of all Jews. It is entirely
possible that only the final collapse of the European economy can stop
the corruption, because cold facts and logic clearly cannot stop this
ingrained corruption.
The position of the Western countries regarding the Palestinian issue
is perplexing. Throughout modern history, millions of refugees,
including the Jews who survived the Holocaust or were expelled from the
Arab countries, have adapted and integrated into the societies of
their new countries without UN involvement. Catastrophes continue to
occur around the world, refugees are slaughtered on a daily basis in
terrorist attacks and hate crimes, women are raped and children flee and
starve to death while the UN deals with the Palestinians. UN clerks
devote their time to the descendants of the Arab refugees of 1948,
although many of them have long since established themselves, unlike
other refugees (in Africa, for example), in the Arab states among people
with whom they share a culture, religion, language and history.
Western countries perpetuate the problem of the Palestinian Arab
refugees deliberately. Their motive is not love of the Palestinians
Arab, but rather to prevent the issue from being resolved. On the other
hand, the Arab states do not want the Palestinian Arab refugees
anywhere near them, and until the Arab Spring they used the “liberation
of Palestine” as a rallying cry to close ranks against the common
“Zionist enemy.” Recently, however, it has become apparent that the
Arab masses no longer accept hatred of Israel as their common
denominator and actively work to overthrow the corrupt Arab regimes.
Unfortunately, the leaders of the Arab world, as well as many
European Union and other Western leaders have had no real intention of
finding genuine solutions within the Arab states for the problems of
the Palestinian Arabs.
Instead, they have used the Palestinian Arabs to channel popular
anger and unrest and as an excuse to wage campaigns against Israel and
to divert popular anger against the ruling elites. Western leaders
never admit it, but instead of demanding citizenship for the refugees
in the Arab countries where they have settled, they deliberately
enforce the status of “Palestinian refugees” and delude the Palestinian
Arabs into assuming that they will eventually “return to Palestine.”
They know perfectly well that their policies encourage the Palestinian
Arabs to cling to the vain hope that with Western support, at some time
in the future they will “return” to Israel and destroy it with waves of
refugees and mujahideen terrorism.
The West pays the UN and other welfare agencies billions of dollars
to keep the Palestinian Arab problem alive, but if they had invested
the money in helping the Palestinian Arabs settle in the countries
where they have already lived for years as equal, productive citizens,
the issue could have long since been taken off the agenda.
Instead, the West and the Arab-Muslim world pay cold cash to prevent
the issue from being resolved, contradicting all historical, legal and
political logic. The West has squandered billions by sustaining corrupt
UN agencies and continuing manipulative anti-Semitism through the
so-called “return of the refugees,” a euphemism for the destruction of
Israel.
In the current negotiations for a peace agreement, Israel countered
the Palestinian Arab demand for the “return” with the demand that the
Palestinian Arabs recognize Israel as the national homeland of the
Jewish people, a Jewish state.
Israel’s demand was made to force the Palestinian Arabs to recognize
that Israel – with full, unalienable, undeniable historic rights to the
Holy Land – was demographically a Jewish country with a Jewish culture
and Jewish heritage, and that the dream of destroying it with floods
of refugees and jihad terrorists had to be permanently shelved. The
Israeli demand is based on the assumption that by recognizing Israel as
a Jewish state the Palestinian Arabs will have to abandon the plan of
trying to change its demographics with a “legitimate” influx of
refugees and terrorist operatives.EVEN ABBAS ADMITS HE IS NOT A LEGITIMATE LEADER
Abbas
has a full understanding of the operative and historical implications
of the Israeli demand, and therefore is unwilling to include Palestinian
recognition of Israel as a Jewish state in a peace agreement. He
claims that the Palestinian “right of return” is the “individual right”
of each Palestinian Arab, therefore he cannot, in their name, waive it
and thereby resolve a core problem of the Israeli-Arab conflict. In
taking this position, Abbas openly admits he is not a leader, does not
represent the collective will of the Palestinian Arab people, and has
no legitimate standing or legal status as far as they are concerned.
That means that Israel is being asked to accept an agreement from a
disposable leader who one day will disappear, while the various branches
of his administration and his religious establishment brainwash the
younger generation of Palestinian Arabs to continue the conflict, to
dream of the “return” and to plan Israel’s destruction.
Abbas is not considered their leader by the Palestinian Arab
populations in the Arab countries or in the Gaza Strip, and even the
Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank claim that without the support of
Israel he would not survive for even a day. Thus the urgent American
pressure on Israel to reach an agreement with Abbas, based on the claim
that Mahmoud Abbas is a “unique” leader presenting a “unique”
opportunity for peace, is difficult to understand. The Palestinian Arab
people, exposed to unending incitement to violence against Israel,
ignore the promises made by Abbas as well as the agreements he signed,
as they ignore the declarations of recognition of Israel as a Jewish
state made previously by Yasser Arafat.
Arafat, the legendary Palestinian leader, recognized Israel
as a Jewish state. It was only natural that Abbas, his protégé and the
heir to the Palestinian Arab leadership, would follow his precedent.
But Abbas’ retreat shows the inherent deception in the Palestinian Arab
negotiating strategy. That strategy, to which the West has blinded
itself, permits Palestinian Arab officials to lie when dealing with the
Jews. By calling Jewish history a “delusional myth” Abbas ignores his
own side’s previous commitments and Israel’s right to preserve its own
identity.
Other Palestinian Arab officials go further. Adli Sadeq, the PA ambassador to India, said in 2011
that Israelis who believe the PA recognized Israel’s right to exist
were deluding themselves. “[Israelis],” he said, “fool themselves,
assuming that Fatah accepts them and recognizes the right of their
state to exist. No two Palestinians disagree that Israel exists, but
recognition of its right to exist is something else, different from
recognition of its existence.”
“Sincere” Palestinian Arab activists actually admit that “Arafat’s
recognition of Israel in 1993 [was] a meaningless ornament to a
deceptive peace process that is regularly cited by the PA to create a
facade of sincerity.”The only way the Americans can promote a genuine peace would be to exert pressure in three directions:

On themselves and the rest of the West. They must stop
regarding the Palestinian Arabs who settled in the Arab countries as
refugees and stop financing the subversive agencies brainwashing them
to believe in the “return” and keeping the dream alive of Israel’s
destruction.

On the Arab states, which, under the shadow of regional developments and with Western pressure, have
to put an end to racist and discriminatory policies against the
Palestinian Arabs living in their midst for so many years, recognize
them and give them full civil rights.

On the Palestinians, especially the Palestinian Authority leadership.
Israel is fully aware of their tricks and will no longer accept
Palestinian lies, promises, extortion or manipulation and will not
allow even one Palestinian Arab “refugee” to “return” to its territory.
They have to realize that Israel will not permit the West Bank to
become another “Hamastan,” another region populated by Islamist jihad
terrorists whose only desire is to kill Israelis. The Palestinian
Arab leadership should focus on the positive aspects of building a
Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip as a center of
political and national Palestinian identification. It should already be
preparing the Palestinians in the diaspora for the realization that if
there is a new Palestinian state, it will not be large enough for all
of them and that they will have to become citizens of the countries
where they currently live. REPEATED AMERICAN FAILURES

The main change will have to be made by the Americans. Their global
failures in dealing with radical Islam, Iran and Russia, to name but
three, should have taught them a lesson. The American administration
should put an end to its disastrous – and amateurish – experiments in
foreign policy. It has to internalize the value of Israel’s faithful,
stable friendship, unique in the quicksand of the treacherous, unstable
Middle East.
The Americans are Archimedes’ fulcrum and they now have to find the
lever that can bring about peace between Israel and the Palestinian
Arabs. Instead of trying to pressure Israel and encouraging the
Palestinian narrative for Israel’s destruction, America should pressure
both the Arab states and the West to say, loudly and clearly, “There
will be no return.” The descendants of the Palestinian refugees will be
absorbed as citizens with equal rights by the Arab countries and will
not “return” to Israel. That is where peace will begin.
Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent remarks,
in which he said that Israel had to waive its demand that the leaders
of the Palestinian Authority recognize Israel as a Jewish state, was
most unfortunate. It showed that the Americans would continue to
appease the Palestinian Arabs, preventing an end to the conflict and
making it impossible to achieve peace.This article first appeared in The Investigative Project on Terrorism.

We are hypocrites and cowards - we take freedom for granted as it is eroding underneath our feet‏

Message to offended Muslims

A GOOD, TRUE STORY NOT KNOWN BY MANY.....Air Force.

The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

What happened?

Mark Hasten Tribute Video Touro College

Housing Quiz

The Record-so far...!

CBS special on Bengazi

Report: 83 percent of doctors have considered quitting over Obamacare

Sally Nelson

Eighty-three percent of American physicians have considered leaving their practices over President Barack Obama’s health care reform law, according to a survey released by the Doctor Patient Medical Association.

Islamization on the move

"What we are dealing with is Islamization. Islamization is the imposition of ideological norms in increasing severity. Like Nazification, it transforms a society by remaking it in its own image from the largest to the smallest of details."Daniel Greenfield

Toronto rejects Anti-Israel Ads...

Shrinking Lands

Why Israel opposes international forces in the jordan valley/

/why-israel-opposes-international-forces-in-the-jordan-valley/

Islam is Islam, And That’s It

Back in 2007, when confronted with the phrase “moderate Islam”, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan famously responded: “These descriptions are very ugly, it is offensive and an insult to our religion. There is no moderate or immoderate Islam. Islam is Islam and that’s it.”

Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for uploading and annotating this video: View video at http://gatesofvienna.net/

There's no racist like a liberal racist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=vz4PjxSmtoI

Ex-Navy SEAL Drops Bombshell On FOX: Says Government is Creating Conditions to Impose Martial Law R

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDuds14OBiE#t=156

American surprise

The Nairobi Mall Massacre

Ninh Chu Ninh Chu

Islam Untied

Platitudes about Islam being a faith of peace are not credible anymore. Islam is only as good as the way its followers practice it; and if they have created killing fields in the name of Islam, then Islam will be recognized by the silence of those who did not speak out when their faith was being massacred to massacre humanity.

AFTERBURNER w/ BILL WHITTLE: The Lynching

What-are you against peace?

Sydney Wake Up The Horrific Muslim Infiltration Of Britain - Luton

Kerry: 'Core Issue of Instability ... Is the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict'‏

Kerry is no friend. By endorsing the "Arab peace initiative" he shows his true intentions and beliefs . And by endorsing linkage he shows that he is either a liar or a fool.Syria is on fire, Egypt is at best incredibly unstable and this is due to Israel? It is out in the open!

A word to left-wing students

In their own words-ru listening?

"The lesson these Islamist groups appear to be drawing from events in Egypt is that democratic engagement with opponents is pointless. And that doesn't bode well for countries with strong Islamist movements..."

Flashback: Obama Admits He Cut Medicare

Another Democratic slogan blown to h....

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

When nations and cultures ignore the early warning signs of the infiltration of radical Islam

The UK has 85 sharia courts. France has over 750 “no go zones,” Muslim enclaves where even French police don’t enter.

Watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDKk15KcqNk&feature=email

No such thing as "Islamophobia"

However, if you do not want your positions challenged or criticized or even researched, make up a new "phobia"-shout it long enough and some "people", agenda driven, will use it. Ay, yes, the false term does keep many, many financially rewarded-follow the money.gs don morris, Ph.D.

Khader Adnan: Leader of Islamic jihad or innocent baker?

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.More...

Omar Barghouti's Propaganda at USC on January 12, 2012

Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’ -- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.Clare M. Lopez

Americans are opening their eyes

Advertisers fleeing All-American Muslim 'propaganda'The American people are seeing through the propaganda piece that is TLC's All-American Muslim reality/dawah show, and responsible advertisers are fleeing in droves. The show aims to combat a trumped-up problem, "Islamophobia," by presenting Muslims who are just ordinary folk, and

Why Islam is Incompatible with Western Law

Col. Allen West answers a question on muslim terror

Challah's Gaza Rocket Counter

This Month:4Last Month:191

This Year: 562

Total since 2002: 12055

Cease fire Hamas style!!

Thanks http://challahhuakbar.blogspot.com/

"Islamophobia"

"Islamophobia" was a politically manipulative coinage designed to silence critics of Islamic supremacism.It was invented, deliberately, by a Muslim Brotherhood front organization, the International Institute for Islamic Thought, which is based in Northern Virginia.

10 Unknown West Bank Facts

Liberals Redefine "Extremism" and the "Political Center"

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist.The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Don’t ever call it ‘West Bank’ again

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

Who do the territories belong to?

The legal borders of Israel under international law

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror YeminiIn 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state. Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

How Liberals Argue

Hebrew Univ-you rock!!

Judea and Samaria are not "occupied" lands-why?

Judea-Samaria were not only parts of the ancient Jewish homeland but were recognized as part of the Jewish National Home recognized by San Remo and the League of Nations [1920, 1922] and by the UN charter [article 80; 1945].

"Political Correctness."

"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rapidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."Texas A&M

Christopher Monckton Speaking in St. Paul on the climate issues

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

WHAT Golda Meir actually said...

"When was there an independent Palestinian people with a Palestinian state? It was either southern Syria before the First World War, and then it was a Palestine including Jordan. It was not as though there was a Palestinian people in Palestine considering itself as a Palestinian people and we came and threw them out and took their country away from them. They did not exist." Golda Meir June 15, 1969: Interview in the UK Sunday Times

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

About Me

Semi-retired Professor, now also permanent resident of Israel;divides time between both countries-serves on several Boards of Directors for Israel advocacy groups;Chana, resident of Jerusalem, JCPA member